Here is a version with Precise Puppy, and with the latest Mate 1.4 !
More stable and reliable !
In this version, you'll have a new appearance, a Puppy menu (thanks rg66 & `f00 ), Glib 2.32, GVFS 1.12, & a working JWM ( no icons problems with menus ).

ISO is 220mo, largest than the previous sorry :

The JWM desktop :

Mate 1.4

Desktop :

Okay, I would like to introduce this time, a new desktop environment, Mate !
What is it ? It's "a species of holly native to subtropical South America used to prepare a beverage called mate" ! Hmm no, no... I was wrong ...

Wikipedia is better than me :

Quote:

MATE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2. The name derives from yerba mate, a species of holly native to subtropical South America used to prepare a beverage called mate.[1] The renaming is necessary to avoid conflicts with Gnome 3 components.

Sourceforge was evidently having problems today because the download was painfully slow but.......... the end result looks good here.Sound,internet and display all working.
Glad to see a Mate version....... I'm another of those users that prefer Gnome 2 over Gnome 3 so it's good to see an active fork of Gnome 2 continue the tradition.
Anyway, no problems yet......

I installed mate to a 4gb flash drive.
I installed the devx and kernel source sfs + the proprietary nvidia
driver.
Added some applications, lost the volume control from the panel
somewhere along the way.

Upon what Puppy version did you base this? Is this likewise based upon Slacko as is your "Checkmate"? There is a reason why I ask: Slacko - and Slackware per se - does not run well upon my computer unfortunately. Debian-based distros seem to run the very best.

This Mate looks beautiful indeed and having run Puppy-4.2.1 for a very long time with the gnome desktop I would love running your Mate most definitely! Yet if based upon Slacko...

Your Checkmate was equally beautiful by the way. You do an excellent job of melding desktop environments into Puppy and keeping them both lite-weight and breath-takingly beautiful! Who would ever think our small distro could so far surpass the "Big Boys" in size, useful applications per megabyte, and sheer beauty?

I've been using this all day (with a nap timeout) and it's working great, I just run alsamixer in the terminal to set the sound levels.
The control center,caja,etc works.
I first noticed the volume control missing after installing the proprietary Nvidia driver but I'm not certain that was the cause.

Yes, this is based on Slacko, previous versions of Puppy dependencies hold too old, and I am unable to update them, without breaking the system.However, for those who can not run Slacko due to a PC too old or other, I prepared a version of CheckMate based Racy.
I will try a Mate on Racy too.

For the next release, I will install the Puppy Menu like CheckMate, the MintMenu is in preparation, & the sound applet'll be remplaced, since it seems to be instable.

Thanks to follow this derivative. _________________I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite Linux distrbution on the Citadel.

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